15 Oct
2002
15 Oct
'02
6:51 p.m.
In news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C@pacbell.net, yi ge mei you
wei ba wrote:
In reference to:
http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside a
dumptser. Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
Bob
Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd
go grab it for you
if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
Area Code: 818
Prefix: 762
Location: North Hollywood
Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it. 
15 Oct
15 Oct
8 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
In reference to:
http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside a
dumptser. Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
The url isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the
movie business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential
SGI gear.
-brian.
> In news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C@pacbell.net, yi ge mei
you wei ba wrote:
Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd go
grab it for you
if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
Area Code: 818
Prefix: 762
Location: North Hollywood
Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it. 
8:10 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
The url isn't working for me, but it's
probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the movie
business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential SGI
gear.
I'd like to see the picture too so I can try to identify the area (just
for kicks ;)
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9:07 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Here: http://world.std.com/~bdc/pics/sgi.jpg
There's not a lot to go on, but someone familiar with the area might be
able to identify it. Disney has extensive facilities in Glendale along
Flower St. and in Burbank just off the 134. DreamWorks Animation is in
the same neighborhood, but I know they don't have any Onyx systems. This
/might/ be over there somewhere. The general consensus based on the feel
of the surrounding buildings is that it's in the San Fernando Valley,
but it's really hard to be positive as damn near all of Los Angeles
County is ugly sprawl.
My onsite SGI support engineer doesn't recognize the location, but I've
sent out various inquiries to the people I know at other studios. It's
also very possible that this is a system from one of the small
post-production operations out here. That would make it a lot more
difficult to track down before the trash people come to haul it away.
-brian.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
The url
isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the movie
business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential SGI
gear.
I'd like to see the picture too so I can try to identify the area (just
for kicks ;) 
9:15 p.m.
Not to ask a silly question -
But if you don't know where the unit is, how did someone find the picture
in the first place?
Wouldn't it make sense to track the picture to its location rather than
trying to place the picture?
JP
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Here: http://world.std.com/~bdc/pics/sgi.jpg
There's not a lot to go on, but someone familiar with the area might be
able to identify it. Disney has extensive facilities in Glendale along
Flower St. and in Burbank just off the 134. DreamWorks Animation is in
the same neighborhood, but I know they don't have any Onyx systems. This
/might/ be over there somewhere. The general consensus based on the feel
of the surrounding buildings is that it's in the San Fernando Valley,
but it's really hard to be positive as damn near all of Los Angeles
County is ugly sprawl.
My onsite SGI support engineer doesn't recognize the location, but I've
sent out various inquiries to the people I know at other studios. It's
also very possible that this is a system from one of the small
post-production operations out here. That would make it a lot more
difficult to track down before the trash people come to haul it away.
-brian.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
The url
isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the movie
business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential SGI
gear.
I'd like to see the picture too so I can try to identify the area (just
for kicks ;)
10:07 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
Oh yeah. That's...I have no idea where ;)
I was assuming from the original message that there were clues as to where
it might be. From that picture, it could be anywhere in North America or
Europe.
I'd like
to see the picture too so I can try to identify the area (just
for kicks ;)
Here: http://world.std.com/~bdc/pics/sgi.jpg There's not a lot to go on, but someone familiar
with the area might be
able to identify it. Disney has extensive facilities in Glendale along
North Hollywood and its surroundings are a BIG area. Good luck figuring
out where this is unless you live down the street or work there.
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16 Oct
16 Oct
2:46 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I was assuming from the original message that there
were clues as to where
it might be. From that picture, it could be anywhere in North America or
Europe.
If you notice the car on the left of the image, it gives two clues that
show the location is in the US somewhere. The license plate, even though
you can't see all of it, is US sized. The steering wheel is also on the
left side of the car. Another noticeable item in the photo is the DSS dish
on the roof of the red brick building.
If might actually be possible to identify the owner of car in the photo,
by matching up the last two digits of the license plate '78', if the
general city/state can be identified. It might also be possible to
identify the company that owns the dumpster...
-Toth
3:06 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Looks like it might be a Maryland plate if, as it appears, it's black on white..
I was assuming from the original message that
there were clues as to where
it might be. From that picture, it could be anywhere in North America or
Europe.
If might actually be possible to identify the owner of car in the photo,
by matching up the last two digits of the license plate '78', if the
general city/state can be identified. It might also be possible to
identify the company that owns the dumpster...
6:31 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
If might actually be possible to identify the owner of
car in the photo,
by matching up the last two digits of the license plate '78', if the
general city/state can be identified. It might also be possible to
identify the company that owns the dumpster...
What if the car was shipped over to Europe? Hey, it's possible!
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7:58 a.m.
At 08:08 PM 10/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
I was assuming from the original message that there
were clues as to where
it might be. From that picture, it could be anywhere in North America or
Europe.
Yes, but chances are that it is in the U.S. In most other countries,
the average size of cars is smaller and the chance of finding a sport
utility vehicle is much smaller. There is also a standard frame
truck to the right-another sign. Plus, I see a distribution transformer on
a pole (europeans try to avoid this whenever possible) and last, but not
least, that transformer is single-phase. Distribution transformers
in most of western Europe are usually 3-phase. Plus, you don't
usually see dumpsters with that shape in Europe (though this is just
a subjective appreciation).
So taking all things together, I'd say I'm 95% sure that it is in
the U.S., somewhere without severe winters (no below-freezing
temperatures - look at the trees).
carlos.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
10:18 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Carlos Murillo wrote:
Yes, but chances are that it is in the U.S. In most
other countries,
the average size of cars is smaller and the chance of finding a sport
utility vehicle is much smaller. There is also a standard frame
truck to the right-another sign. Plus, I see a distribution transformer on
a pole (europeans try to avoid this whenever possible) and last, but not
least, that transformer is single-phase. Distribution transformers
in most of western Europe are usually 3-phase. Plus, you don't
usually see dumpsters with that shape in Europe (though this is just
a subjective appreciation).
So taking all things together, I'd say I'm 95% sure that it is in
the U.S., somewhere without severe winters (no below-freezing
temperatures - look at the trees).
We have quite a number of detectives on the list ;)
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15 Oct
15 Oct
8:42 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
Wish they'd dump some my way. :) I'd _love_ to have a nice big Onyx to
keep the VAX 6320 company. I have to keep the smaller computers away, so
they don't get bullied... ^_^
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
a
> In news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C@pacbell.net, yi ge
mei you wei ba wrote:
> > > Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd go grab it for you
> > > if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
> >
> > Area Code: 818
> > Prefix: 762
> > Location: North Hollywood
> >
> > Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it.
>
> In reference to:
> http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
>
> For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside
dumptser.
Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
The url isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the
movie business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential
SGI gear.
-brian.
Bob
8:59 p.m.
Brian Chase wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
In reference to:
http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside a
dumptser. Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
The url isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the
movie business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential
SGI gear.
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all this SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
to reduce expenses?
I still can't visualize a major studio settling for anything
less than the real thing (tm).
-- Ross
> In news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C@pacbell.net, yi ge
mei you wei ba wrote:
Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd go
grab it for you
if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
Area Code: 818
Prefix: 762
Location: North Hollywood
Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it.
-brian.
9:14 p.m.
Seems to me someone is probably *moving* the SGI, and thought it would make
a cute photo. Mr. Truck just hasn't shown up yet.
--John
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Ross Archer
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 22:01
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
Brian Chase wrote:
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all this SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
to reduce expenses?
I still can't visualize a major studio settling for anything
less than the real thing (tm).
-- Ross
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
a
> In news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C@pacbell.net, yi ge
mei you wei ba wrote:
> > > Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd go grab it for you
> > > if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
> >
> > Area Code: 818
> > Prefix: 762
> > Location: North Hollywood
> >
> > Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it.
>
> In reference to:
> http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
>
> For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside
dumptser.
Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
The url isn't working for me, but it's probably not a troll. There are
quite a few large vfx and animation shops out here. I might be able to
identify the area if the pic was available. Nearly everyone in the
movie business is dumping, or have already dumped, their non-essential
SGI gear.
-brian.
10:04 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ross Archer wrote:
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all this
SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
to reduce expenses?
In case you haven't noticed, quite a few post-production studios have been
replacing expensive SGI gear with farms of PCs running linux and whatever
rendering software is available. It saves tons on cost, and can get the
same job done faster. PC's provide about the best price/performance
ratio of any available hardware...
One example is Dreamworks:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6103
--
"This fucking university has shown time and time again that it is
completely fucking incompetent when it comes to employing technology"
-- Anonymous
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2040637020924.gif
10:25 p.m.
Yep, its all being run on PC's and Mac's, the days of dedicated
multiprocessors for rendering
have passed.
Even my beloved ICE multiprocessor boards are slower than PC's running
Windows applications.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Ross Archer wrote:
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all
this SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Maybe it's the little shops doing the dumping, which are
hurting for work enough that SGI is just too expensive, and
they make do with inferior tools (e.g. PCs and PC software)
to reduce expenses?
In case you haven't noticed, quite a few post-production studios have been
replacing expensive SGI gear with farms of PCs running linux and whatever
rendering software is available. It saves tons on cost, and can get the
same job done faster. PC's provide about the best price/performance
ratio of any available hardware...
One example is Dreamworks:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6103
--
"This fucking university has shown time and time again that it is
completely fucking incompetent when it comes to employing technology"
-- Anonymous
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2040637020924.gif
10:17 p.m.
On 15 Oct 2002 at 19:01, Ross Archer wrote:
I'm curious now. If they're dumping all this
SGI gear,
what on earth are they replacing it with?
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Or perhaps traditional ink and cel animation is coming back into
fashion? :)
-- Scarletdown
10:35 p.m.
Scarletdown wrote:
On 15 Oct 2002 at 19:01, Ross Archer wrote:
You don't watch much Japanese Animation do you.
It is only the USA that can't draw and needs to
go computer generated 3D. I suspect that software
rather than hardware is the factor here as it seems
all TOP 3D animation uses custom in house software.
A lot of traditional ink and cel style animation
is done on computer but it does not have the
"special effects look" that 3D has,so most people
don't notice it.
Surely they still need ultra-high-performance
multi-CPU
systems to render and animate with. Or not?
Or perhaps traditional ink and cel
animation is coming back into
fashion? :) 
11:14 p.m.
Ben Franchuk wrote:
You don't watch much Japanese Animation do you.
It is only the USA that can't draw and needs to
go computer generated 3D.
Anime doesn't have the detail or frames per second of US animation.
I've noticed the Japanese are doing computer generated stuff too. Some
of the stuff I've seen an Cartoon network has got to be computer generated.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
11:52 p.m.
Chad Fernandez wrote:
Ben Franchuk wrote:
Cartoon network is not the place to watch Anime. While both the US and Japanese
animators are under both money and time pressure to crank out TV shows, it is
the movies that show the talent of the artist. Anime is a kid's product from
the US point of view, where everywhere else it is respected prime time media
ranging from general vewing to very XXX rated products with all sorts of
storylines ranging from cute to horror and gore.
Right now the problem is not generating 3D but rather developing
a interface that a arist can use quickly and effectivly. The DVD Shrek has
a lot on how they made the movie. Computers are just a tool and they
will always comeup with new ways to use them.
2D animation seems nowdays to use more specal effect shots like zooming
and depth of field that computers are good at with helping the artist.
Both 2D and 3D are more state of the art than most people think but 3D
still needs work to have people look realistic and still generate quickly.
You don't watch much Japanese Animation do
you.
It is only the USA that can't draw and needs to
go computer generated 3D.
Anime doesn't have the detail or frames per second of US animation. I've
noticed the Japanese are doing computer generated stuff too. Some of
the stuff I've seen an Cartoon network has got to be computer generated. 
16 Oct
16 Oct
10:36 a.m.
New subject: OT: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Well, this *is* cctalk... :-)
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
Anime is a kid's product from the US point of
view, where everywhere else
it is respected prime time media ranging from general vewing to very XXX
rated products with all sorts of storylines ranging from cute to horror
and gore.
Ben is right. I was introduced to anime last year (though I had watched
Robotech as a kid), and I love it. There's everything from kiddie stuff
(e.g. Pokemon) to heady, intellectual stuff (e.g. Evangelion) to stuff that
can only be described as 'tentacle porn'.
I just watched the recent US release of 'The End of Evangelion'. It and the
26-episode Evangelion TV series that precedes it are IMHO currently the most
entertaining thing one can play on a screen.
While both the US and Japanese animators are under
both money and time
pressure to crank out TV shows, it is the movies that show the talent of
the artist.
I agree, but it is also important to note that anime TV series typically
have one all-important quality that most US animated TV series lack:
continuity. US TV animation is episodic: crisis and resolution occur within
30 minutes, and there is no plot beyond that. Every episode starts in the
same basic universe, and by the end of the episode, nothing has changed.
Many anime series, however, have an overall plot, and each episode is just a
tiny window into that. Evangelion, for instance, is like a 13-hour movie.
Cartoon network is not the place to watch Anime.
Where is?
--
Jeffrey Sharp
11:19 a.m.
New subject: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
WinMX or KaZaA. Download,
encode to suit your video editing card and then
play it back on a bigscreen TV. Shame about all the bad TV->tape->Divx rips
though.
Later.
--
Phil.
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
Well, this *is* cctalk... :-)
What would cctalk
be without the occasional (OK, frequent) off-topic thread
:-)
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
I
don't even want to know what you mean by that.
Anime is a kid's product from the US point of
view, where everywhere
else it is respected prime time media ranging from general vewing to
very XXX rated products with all sorts of storylines ranging from
cute to horror and gore.
Ben is right. I was introduced to anime last year (though
I had
watched Robotech as a kid), and I love it. There's everything from
kiddie stuff (e.g. Pokemon) to heady, intellectual stuff (e.g.
Evangelion) to stuff that can only be described as 'tentacle porn'. I just watched the recent US release of 'The End
of Evangelion'. It
and the 26-episode Evangelion TV series that precedes it are IMHO
currently the most entertaining thing one can play on a screen.
I'll have to
try and track that down. Later.
I agree, but it is also important to note that anime
TV series
typically have one all-important quality that most US animated TV
series lack: continuity. US TV animation is episodic: crisis and
resolution occur within 30 minutes, and there is no plot beyond that.
Every episode starts in the same basic universe, and by the end of
the episode, nothing has changed. Many anime series, however, have an
overall plot, and each episode is just a tiny window into that.
Evangelion, for instance, is like a 13-hour movie.
That's what I like (and
hate) about anime - miss an episode and it's a total
pain to work out the plotline from there.
Cartoon
network is not the place to watch Anime.
Where is? 
11:41 a.m.
New subject: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Philip Pemberton wrote:
10,000 comedians out of work.... :)
Doc
Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
Quieter :). Well, this *is* cctalk... :-)
What would
cctalk be without the occasional (OK, frequent) off-topic thread
:-)
11:39 a.m.
New subject: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Philip Pemberton wrote:
That's what I like (and hate) about anime - miss
an episode and it's a total
pain to work out the plotline from there.
I watch it on Cartoon Network sometimes, and I get very lost. A lot of
it seems to go nowhere very slowly. The short episodes bug me too. I
wish I could watch 2 or 3 episodes in a row, if I were to have my way.
Usually I watch it on a Saturday night when I'm online and semi-bored,
so it's okay, I guess :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
10:30 p.m.
New subject: Anyone have a spare PSU for a DEC Highnote Ultra II laptop?
Some time ago, I got a DEC Highnote Ultra II laptop missing the PSU
and IDE bay. I was attempting to fire it up tonight with an alternate
PSU and "fire" was the operative word.
It seems that there is an internal PSU slightly larger than a standard 9V
battery... inside this mini-PSU (a DC-DC converter, really) were/are some
100uF *10V* SMT caps. (if that's what the 100-10 marking means). These
are 1mm x 2mm, gray with a white band on one end and the legend on the
PCB says C1, C2, etc., not D1, D2, etc. Well... they must have been
counting on the tolerance of the caps being +/- 10% and the PSU not being
*over* 11VDC (It's marked "11VDC @ 2.7A"). I thought that 12VDC would be
safe. It was not. I'm guessing that my "12VDC" was slightly higher than
that due to the light load that the laptop placed on it.
So... one exploded SMT cap later (now replaced), I'm in search of a
"real" PSU. It has a connector I'm used to seeing on Dell laptops,
kind of a five-sided shape with three pins. The pin in the peak
seems to be the ground, the two pins in the base corners seem to be
the positive supply.
This sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks,
-ethan
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17 Oct
17 Oct
7:43 p.m.
New subject: Anyone have a spare PSU for a DEC Highnote Ultra II laptop?
I have two of the Highnote laptopss, both missing the PSU. If you find out what the pin
out is let me know.
Joe
At 08:32 PM 10/16/02 -0700, you wrote:
Some time ago, I got a DEC Highnote Ultra II laptop missing the PSU
and IDE bay. I was attempting to fire it up tonight with an alternate
PSU and "fire" was the operative word.
It seems that there is an internal PSU slightly larger than a standard 9V
battery... inside this mini-PSU (a DC-DC converter, really) were/are some
100uF *10V* SMT caps. (if that's what the 100-10 marking means). These
are 1mm x 2mm, gray with a white band on one end and the legend on the
PCB says C1, C2, etc., not D1, D2, etc. Well... they must have been
counting on the tolerance of the caps being +/- 10% and the PSU not being
*over* 11VDC (It's marked "11VDC @ 2.7A"). I thought that 12VDC would be
safe. It was not. I'm guessing that my "12VDC" was slightly higher than
that due to the light load that the laptop placed on it.
So... one exploded SMT cap later (now replaced), I'm in search of a
"real" PSU. It has a connector I'm used to seeing on Dell laptops,
kind of a five-sided shape with three pins. The pin in the peak
seems to be the ground, the two pins in the base corners seem to be
the positive supply.
This sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks,
-ethan
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8:04 p.m.
New subject: Anyone have a spare PSU for a DEC Highnote Ultra II laptop?
--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
I have two of the Highnote laptopss, both missing
the PSU. If you find
out what the pin out is let me know.
>The pin in the peak
>seems to be the ground, the two pins in the base corners seem to be
>the positive supply.
That's my best guess at the moment. I am positive that the base
pins are tied together. The question is simply which is + and which
is -.
One response... might be able to get a PSU. Might not.
Missing a variety of parts, mine only cost me shipping ($8). Wouldn't
mind getting it working. Not gonna go broke doing it.
-ethan
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24 Oct
9:42 p.m.
New subject: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
On 16 Oct 2002 at 17:21, Philip Pemberton wrote:
WinMX or KaZaA. Download, encode to suit your video editing card
and
then play it back on a bigscreen TV. Shame about all the bad
TV->tape->Divx rips though.
Ugh, you could try buying the DVDs.
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"If you want to see it, see into it directly;
but when you stop to think about it, it is
altogether missed."
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
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Cartoon network is not the place to watch Anime.
Where is?
16 Oct
16 Oct
11:20 a.m.
New subject: OT: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
You could join a anime club, rent
it or heaven forbid
even buy them. Just read the labels carefully as the
censorship ratings differ from country to country.
The internet is the best way to find titles and reviews
and places to buy them. Piratcy can be a problem so
if a deal is too good to be true watch it. Just remember
while many anime ran for a season or half a season some
have ran alot longer than that.
Note old computers will never be on anime, they just
have the new high tech fantasy stuff.
Cartoon network
is not the place to watch Anime.
Where is?
24 Oct
24 Oct
9:46 p.m.
New subject: OT: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Go away for a while and come back to find people talking about my
work in the list. :-)
On 16 Oct 2002 at 10:20, Ben Franchuk wrote:
Note old computers will never be on anime, they just
have the new high tech fantasy stuff.
Actually there are often old computers in anime and even a whole
series revolving around playing old arcade games. There is one rather
R rated series where different characters are named after various old
models of Macs.
What I've found a better match up of anime and old computers is that I
can trade anime for old computers. Got an Atari Portfolio and a Poly-88
that way. :-)
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"If you want to see it, see into it directly;
but when you stop to think about it, it is
altogether missed."
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
David Williams - Computer Packrat
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
16 Oct
16 Oct
11:59 a.m.
New subject: OT: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
I agree, but it is also important to note that anime TV
series typically
have one all-important quality that most US animated TV series lack:
continuity. US TV animation is episodic: crisis and resolution occur
within 30 minutes, and there is no plot beyond that. Every episode starts
in the same basic universe, and by the end of the episode, nothing has
changed. Many anime series, however, have an overall plot, and each
episode is just a tiny window into that. Evangelion, for instance, is
like a 13-hour movie.
US Animation isn't the only thing episodic... most of the shows
are too, at least the SF ones. Star Trek (and many of the spinoffs)
are like that. You can pretty much run them in any order.
That is why Babylon 5 was so good. Each episode really did advance
the overall story.
Cartoon
network is not the place to watch Anime.
Where is?
12:12 p.m.
New subject: OT: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Megan wrote:
US Animation isn't the only thing episodic... most
of the shows
are too, at least the SF ones. Star Trek (and many of the spinoffs)
are like that. You can pretty much run them in any order.
DS9 was both episodic and progresive.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
17 Oct
17 Oct
2:03 a.m.
New subject: OT: Anime (was: Sign of the times)
Megan wrote:
Cartoon Network 'adult swim' shows some of the anime which
evolves
over time. But I really dislike cartoon network because of what
they do to some of the older US cartoons -- they snip them and
edit them and add new PC dialog, or stuff that is just so
mind-numbingly childish it isn't worth it. Fox Kids are 10x worse. My brother
was watching something on FK (Digimon or
something like that). They decided to jump from the middle of the series
back to the first episode again... He wasn't pleased. Nor was I - he gave me
a hard time about it... *sigh* little brothers can be such a pain...
Later.
--
Phil.
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
Cartoon network is not the place to watch Anime.
Where is? 
19 Oct
19 Oct
4:31 p.m.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
AHHH!
--
-Linc Fessenden
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
In
news:3DAC9616.5EB1C69C@pacbell.net, yi ge mei you wei ba wrote:
In reference to:
http://216.102.153.252/sgi.jpg
For the graphically or bandwidth challenged, it's an Onyx sitting beside a
dumptser. Possibly a troll, but if I was withing a half-days' drive I'd
spend the weekend driving sidestreets to be sure...
Bob
Looks like california plates, but where ? I'd
go grab it for you
if I knew where it was .... no street signs in the photo :-)
Area Code: 818
Prefix: 762
Location: North Hollywood
Well this is as close as I can peg it. Wish someone would salvage it.
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